Here at Life’s a Beach we love working with Girl Guiding groups across the country, year on year, to reduce litter in each group’s local area. This time we went to Frampton to work with the young people in the…
We returned for another event with local brownie group, the 3rd Cam Brownies. x young people volunteered their evening, with the help of x adults, to make their local area litter free. We first worked with the 3rd Cam Brownies…
We visited Northam Burrows Beach in Westward Ho! for another beach clean with the amazing 1st Torrington Brownies. This is an annual event we have been holding since 2021, and we were thrilled to return for a third year. We…
We all know that plastic lasts for a long time. A light weight, cheap, easily manufacturable material, plastic is a super material when it comes to making things. While the longevity of plastic can be seen as a benefit when…
We hear lots in the news about plastic pollution and ocean plastic. However, have you ever wondered how this plastic is actually getting into the water here in the UK? Well, the main source of ocean plastic pollution is land-based,…
What are microplastics? Microplastics is a wide term that refers to small plastic particles that are a by-product of plastic waste. This could be fibres, fragments, and spheres that usually, but not always, are formed by the breakdown and deterioration…
Ghost gear is a term used to refer to any lost or abandoned fishing gear, such as netting, ropes, traps etc. This is arguably the most dangerous form of ocean pollution as these sometimes massive nets are extremely harmful to…
At Life’s A Beach our goals are to reduce the amount of plastic waste entering our oceans through education and awareness as well as practical action such as organising beach cleans and providing organisations with multi-use products to reduce the…
